Senegal

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is an 18 April 2007 CPJ press release: In Senegal, journalist sentenced to prison New York, April 18, 2007 – A court in the capital, Dakar, handed a prison sentence and heavy damages against a tabloid director on criminal defamation charges over a story trumpeting an alleged high-profile corruption scandal, according […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a 15 March 2007 CPJ press release: In Senegal, journalists given suspended prison term and heavy fine New York, March 15, 2007 – A court in the capital Dakar has sentenced two journalists to suspended prison terms and heavy damages on criminal defamation charges related to a June 2006 story […]

(RSF/IFEX) – Reporters Without Borders has condemned the attack by pro-government demonstrators on about 15 journalists who were following a convoy of supporters of opposition presidential candidate Idrissa Seck, of the Rewmi party and the And Liguey Senegal coalition, in the Dakar district of Mermoz on 21 February 2007. Several people were injured when the […]

(ARTICLE 19/IFEX) – The following is a 25 January 2007 ARTICLE 19 press release: Senegal: New Report Published on the State of Freedom of Expression Ahead of the Senegalese presidential elections on February 25, ARTICLE 19 publishes a report on the state of freedom of expression in Senegal. The legal, political and institutional framework for […]

(RSF/IFEX) – Reporters Without Borders has condemned two separate cases of threats against Senegalese journalists in the past two weeks. The targets were freelance reporter Dié Maty Fall, who works for the privately-owned newspapers “Sud Quotidien”, “Le Populaire” and “L’As” and the websites Rewmi.com ( http://www.rewmi.com ) and Nettali.net ( http://www.nettali.net ), and Pape Alé […]

(RSF/IFEX) – Moustapha Sow, the managing editor of the Dakar-based daily “L’Office”, was freed conditionally on 14 July 2006 pending the outcome of his appeal against his conviction on a charge of libelling Bara Tall, the CEO of a construction company. The release hearing should have been held on 7 July 2006 but was postponed […]

(RSF/IFEX) – RSF has denounced the incarceration, on 29 June 2006, of Moustapha Sow, publication director of the privately-owned daily “L’Office”, who was sentenced to a six-month prison sentence with no parole for “defaming” a businessman. “In Senegal, as elsewhere, journalists pay the price for political crises when the press laws are inappropriate. With the […]

(MFWA/IFEX) – On 5 May 2006 at about 11:00 p.m (local time), Pape Cheikh Fall, health correspondent for independent radio station RFM, was attacked by members of the religious sect Mouride Brotherhood while he was in a bar in Touba, about 250 km east of Dakar. He was attacked for allegedly criticising the sect’s leader, […]

(RSF/IFEX) – Reporters Without Borders is outraged by a vicious attack on journalist Pape Sheikk Fall, who works for an independent Senegalese radio station, Radio Futurs Médias (RFM), in Mbacké, east of the capital Dakar. The journalist was pounced on by seven men armed with iron bars and cables on 4 May 2006. They beat […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a CPJ press release: SENEGAL: Criminal case against prominent journalist dropped New York, May 4, 2006 – The case against prominent journalist Madiambal Diagne was dropped on Tuesday on a procedural issue, ending a legal saga that spanned nearly two years and galvanized the Senegalese press. But the Committee to […]

(RSF/IFEX) – The following is a 29 December 2005 RSF press release: President urged to reject broadcasting law passed by parliament Condemning a broadcasting bill passed by Senegal’s national assembly on 21 December 2005 as “poorly drafted, ambiguous, unfair and repressive,” Reporters Without Borders has urged President Abdoulaye Wade to refuse to sign it into […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a 17 October 2005 CPJ press release: SENEGAL: Police shut radio station, harass staff over interview with separatist New York, October 17, 2005 – The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the closure today of private radio station Sud FM and the detention of staff following the broadcast of an interview […]

(RSF/IFEX) – RSF has expressed shock and condemnation of a heavy-handed police crackdown that saw all Sud FM radio affiliates throughout the country shuttered on 17 October 2005. The stations’ employees have also been arrested. At around 8:40 a.m. (local time) on 17 October, Sud FM’s Dakar station was forcefully shut down by police, who […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a 3 October 2005 CPJ press release: SENEGAL: Three radio stations shuttered by religious leader New York, October 3, 2005 – The Committee to Protect Journalists is troubled by the forced closure on Friday of three radio stations in the Muslim holy city of Touba, center of the Senegalese Muslim […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a CPJ press release: CPJ SPECIAL REPORT SENEGAL: Government stalls on promise to reform repressive laws Journalists focus on defamation laws and Article 80 of the Penal Code New York, June 6, 2005 – Nearly one year after a journalist was imprisoned for his work, the government has failed to […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a CPJ press release: SENEGAL: Journalist freed from prison, criminal charges remain New York, July 27, 2004-Madiambal Diagne, publication director of the independent Senegalese daily Le Quotidien, was granted a provisional release yesterday afternoon after being held for more than two weeks in prison. Diagne was jailed on July 9 […]